The document is a quiz on Bollywood movies and music. It contains 26 multiple choice questions testing knowledge of iconic films, directors, actors, and songs. Some of the notable figures and works identified include Rajnikanth's first Hindi film, the inspiration for the poster of Dev D, Dadasaheb Phalke, Fearless Nadia, Mother India, Mughal-e-Azam, and Lata Mangeshkar's praise of the Beatles' music. The quiz covers cinema history from the silent era to modern times.

1. A QUIZ ON BOLLYWOOD
presents QMs: Sajal Kumar and Arif

2. Bollywood Quiz: PART B
QM : Arif

3. 1. What is the claim to fame of this
movie?

4. Ans
• Rajnikanth
• His first Hindi movie

5. 2
Señorita from Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
Name the three Hindi singers .
(The Spanish singer is a flamenco singer named
Maria del Mar Fernández)
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6. Ans
• Farhan Akhtar, Hrithik Roshan, Abhay Deol

7. 3
• What is the claim to fame of the film – ‘Ram
Rajya’?
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8. Ans
• Only film that Gandhi was supposed to have
watched!

9. 4
• Mother India was the last film before Lagaan to
be shot with ‘___’ – which means that the sound
was recorded on location during shooting unlike
films in which dubbed sound is used.
• What is the technique called?

10. Ans
• Sync Sound

11. 5.Connect the two movies

12. Ans
• The Greatest Story ever told is the movie
• Tagline of Sholay

13. 6
• What did this poster
of ‘The Discreet
Charm of the
Bourgeoisie (1972) ‘
inspire in Bollywood?

14. Ans
• Inspiration for
Dev D Poster

15. 7
Himansu Rai, the founder of Bombay Talkies asked Franz Osten
(director of The Light of Asia) to give X a test.
• “Mr. Ganguly do you act on stage?”
• “No. Sir”
• “Do you sing?”
• “Yes. Mr. Osten. I can sing.”
X then sang a classical Bhajan
It was reported that Osten did not say anything and asked him
to take a screen test. After the test, Osten told Rai, “No, Mr. Rai,
not good”
Then Osten told X , “ You have a square jaw, you look too young
and girlish.”
Who’s X?

16. Ans
• Ashok Kumar Ganguly

17. 8
• His wife had this to say, “We both went to see the
‘cinema’ in an illuminated tent on Sandhurst
Road…It was called the American-India
Cinematograph…It was Christmas 1911…The
main picture of that day was The Life of Christ.
People were weeping on seeing the sufferings of
Christ and the crucifixion. The film was coloured
in the Kinemacolour process. On the way back, X
said, ‘Like the life of Christ, we shall make
pictures about Rama and Krishna’ ”.
• Who is X ( a famous Indian director)?
(His first short film is about the growth of a pea tree
entitled , Birth of a Pea Plant !)

18. Ans
• Dhundiraj Govind Phalke (Dadasaheb Phalke)
Raja Harishchandra fame!

19. 9
• X was the son of the Raja of Gauripur, Assam
and born in 1903.He was also considered to
be an excellent horseman, marksman, dancer,
tennis and billiard player. He had already
bagged several dozen tigers and countless
boars in the jungles of Assam.
• However he is renowned for his direction of
the classic 1935 movie Y which was made first
in Bengali and then in Hindi.

20. Ans
• X – Pramathesh Chandra Barua (P.C. Barua)
• Y- Devdas

21. 10
X was known as the Father of Hindi film singing.
When Talat Mehmood, a celebrated singer himself,
was asked who had inspired him on singing, he
replied ,
“ Oh, X , easily. It was unbelievable how effortlessly
he sang, with such talaffuz (pronunciation), a
beautiful throw of voice and depth of feeling. What
voice control! It used to make my hair stand on end
listening to him. I could never touch him”

22. Ans
• Kundanlal Saigal ( KL Saigal)

23. 11
• The first public screening of this film was held
in Bhuj ( District HQ of Kutch).This was
because of the film’s leading actor’s promise
to the actors and villagers of Kotai.
• The film?

24. Ans
• Lagaan
• (Kotai is the village near Champaner)

25. 12
• X was born as Mary Evans to a Greek
mother and a Scottish father. She
was a blonde and her role often
involved beating up Indian men and
lot of stunts. She was famous for her
role in the movie Hunterwali
directed by Y .
• X was also know by a screen name
‘__ ___’
• Also ,identify the director of
Hunterwali , whose surname rhymes
with the screen name of Mary Evans.

26. Ans
• X – ‘Fearless Nadia’
• Y- Homi Wadia

27. 13
• This singer’s career in Bollywood lasted just five years.
• The owner of a movie studio in Calcutta, Rai Bahadur
Seth Dalsukh Karnani once asked Naseer, the manager
of Corinthian Theatre to go to the Punjab and return
with some girls. So, he returned with some 15-20 of
them. These included the singer and some of her
sisters . They were collectively known as ‘Punjab Mail’.
• Lata Mangeshkar arrived in Bombay at the same time
as this singer and was also about the same age.
However, this singer’s departure from India was a huge
boon for the flight of Lata Mangeshkar’s career. And
they remained friends later.
• Identify the singer.

28. Ans
• Nur Jehan (Noor Jahan)

29. 14
• “The Soviet Union is said to have a massive
distribution of X, dubbed it into a number of its
languages. Prints were flown in to the Soviet
Expeditions near the North Pole…Bands played
___ at airports. X is reported to have been a
favourite film of Mao Tse Tung”-The Indian Film
• Even Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s Cancer Ward had a
reference to it. “ Suddenly she flung out her
arms…, her whole body writhing to the urge of a
popular song she began singing from a recent
Indian film.”
• X?

30. Ans
• Awara

31. 15
• X wrote a pleading letter to Nehru during the period of
severe foreign exchange shortage ,
“Our picture , (by “our” I mean picture belongs to our
great country), has been selected as one of the five best
pictures. You know I am pure a swadeshi producer
without any English education, and I badly need the help
and support of our nation’s representatives in America.
Like other international producers, I should be able to
show that our government is also backing me. Otherwise,
I will look small and lonely.”
• The movie in question, Y was defeated by Federico
Fellini’s , Nights of Cabiria, by just one vote
• Identify X and Y

32. Ans
• X – Mehboob Khan
• Y- Mother India (1958 Oscars)

33. 16
• Once the Guinness Book of World Records
listed X as having sung the most ever songs in
the world : 30000 recordings. Not satisfied
with this fact, Y wrote to Guinness mentioning
the fact that he had started earlier than X and
so must have sung more! Finally, when the
dispute was resolved in 1989, surprisingly,
they declared Z to be the real winner, who had
sung 7500 songs by 1989.
• X, Y and Z?

34. Ans
• X- Lata Mangeshkar
• Y- Mohammed Rafi
• Z- Asha Bhosle

35. 17
• During the 1940s , many comedians in
Bollywood modelled themselves to Hollywood
greats.
• There were these actors – Manohar Janadhan
Dikshit who weighed around 220lbs and the
slim Nazir Mohammed Ghory. They acted till
1947 when Ghory migrated to Pakistan
• How were they better known as- ‘ The Indian
_____’?

36. Ans
• The Indian Laurel and Hardy

37. 18. Claim to fame of this movie?

38. Ans
• Bertrand Russel’s only cameo in a feature film

39. 19
• X played in Hollywood movies like Lawrence of
Arabia and Death on the Nile. X and
Mehmood teamed up in Namasteji –”India’s
first feature-length comedy”
• Moreover they also acted in some movies
which incorporated their names in the titles
like- ‘___ Mehmood in Goa’ and ‘___
Mehmood in Hong Kong’
• Who is X?

40. Ans
• I. S Johar
“delivering dry sardonic dialogue tinged with
cynicism and accompanied by a raised eyebrow”

41. 20
• She was for some time known as ‘the poor
man’s Zeenat Aman’
• In 1976, she was in the cover of Time
magazine – dressed in lingerie and posing like
a 1930s Hollywood screen goddess
• When she quit movies in 1980, Shobhaa De
wrote, “… she now existed in a delusionary
world, eating up to forty egg whites and raw
lettuce a day, writing reams and reams about
Amitabh Bachchan’s plans to eliminate her…”
• Who?

43. Ans
• Parveen Babi

44. 21
• In 1927, the Cinematograph
Committee had asked X to complete
its questionnaire. X refused telling, “
But even to an outsider the evil it has
and is doing is patent. The good, if it
has done any at all, remains to be
proved.”
• In 1939, KA Abbas had written to X ,
“Give this little toy of ours, the
cinema, which is not so useless as it
looks, a little of your attention and
bless it with a smile of tolerance.” X
again refused!
• X?

45. Ans
• Gandhi!

46. 22
• His music was used in Hollywood films like
Lord of War (2005, starring Nicholas Cage)
and Inside man( Spike Lee, 2006)
• He also composed music for the Mandarin
Chinese movie – Warriors of Heaven and Earth
(Tian Di Ying Xiong) in 2003
• Howard Lee, an actor described his music as
‘Gobbledy-gobbledy-gobbledy-gook’
• Who’s he?

47. Ans
• Allah Rakha Rahman

48. 23
• The romance between X and Y is a well- known
episode in Bollywood.
• There was a story which went, “When X and Y shot
romantic sequences, he paid the light boys to make
mistakes so that he could embrace her again and again.
X and the light boys had a perfectly worked-out code
language - when he pulled his ear, the light boys would
make a mistake- mess up the trolley or make a reflector
fall- but when he touched his nose they okayed the
shot…”
• The couple?

49. Ans
• X- Dharmendra
• Y- Hema Malini

50. 24
• Which is the only film in which Dilip Kumar
played a Muslim?

51. Ans
• Mughal-e-Azam ! (as Prince Salim-later
Emperor Jehangir)

52. 25
• X had the following to say of the English band
Y,
“People say that the Y are a fad. But I don’t think
so…If you listen to the Y properly, you get a feel
of old Roman music. Sometimes, you get a feel
of Indian music, sometimes you get a feel of
Assamese folk songs. On the face value you may
feel it is a bad thing but, no, there is inner soul
to the Y’ music. Moreover they are more
experimental…”
• X and Y?

53. Ans
• X- Lata Mangeshkar
• Y- Beatles

54. 26
• Which film magazine in India is said to be
modelled on the American magazine
‘Photoplay’?

55. Ans
• Stardust

56. 2011 : The Year that was.
The Void that has been created!